The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle

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Seite 21 ... with this upward lightning-stroke on the Nebraska Plains. . Out of the deluge,
the flame, and the roar, we suddenly saw a corral and log-house, at our right-
hand ; a small stream, swollen to a torrent, under tall cotton- woods, upon our left.

Seite 44 We kept to the easterly, following John Gilbert's lead, passed the rise in the divide
of which I have spoken, and came to the brink of a lofty bluff, from the base of
which a broad plain extended two miles to the now clearly visible cotton-wood ...

Seite 63 Following this arrangement, we marched out from the shadow of the cotton-woods, and began pushing slowly through the grass toward our game. The
sentries focused all their eyes on us before we had gone a quarter of a mile from
cover, but ...

Seite 80 scape, entered the cotton-wood grove, came to the very water's edge, — and
found nowhere a trace of human kind. I thought it must be a joke. The party had
played some trick on me. They were punishing me for my long absence by hiding
in ...

Seite 81 were mostly elms and cotton-woods, with an occasional oak, primeval in their
size and luxuriance, making the ground under them black with the shadow of
their dense foliage, and exhibiting tree-forms which might fill an artist with rapture
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